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Blonde, ice cool, and sophisticated actress Nina Foch has worked steadily in feature films and television since making her film debut in Return of the Vampire (1943). As a contracted starlet for Columbia Pictures, Foch spent several years appearing in many B-films before she was able to prove herself ready for bigger fare. Born to Dutch conductor/composer Dirk Fock and an American chorine/WWI-era pin-up girl, Foch was born in Holland but raised in Manhattan. Before enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study acting, she had briefly been a concert pianist and an amateur painter. As an actress, Foch gained experience with local theater and touring companies until signing with Columbia in 1943. In 1947, Foch made the first of many forays on Broadway.
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Blonde, ice cool, and sophisticated actress Nina Foch has worked steadily in feature films and television since making her film debut in Return of the Vampire (1943). As a contracted starlet for Columbia Pictures, Foch spent several years appearing in many B-films before she was able to prove herself ready for bigger fare.
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Nina Foch plays Marie Latour, a gypsy princess who is, in truth, the daughter of the werewolf. Stephen Crane plays Bob Morris whose father was murdered by a mysterious beast. When Bob and friend Elsa (Osa Massen) get closer to the truth about Marie, they find themselves in danger.
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Other than the performance of Frieda Inescourt, the acting in this film isn't much to write home about, although Nina Foch's debut performance as Niki secured her the lead role in Cry Of The Werewolf (1944). Lugosi's dialogue is terrible, but he gives it the usual strange twist through the power of his accent and delivery. Anyway, considering that from here he went on to Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) and Plan Nine From Outer Space (1956), we shouldn't quibble, but rather just sit back and be thankful that Lugosi is allowed a certain measure of dignity.
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It seems that Foch is only really comfortable when she's doing something "real." Since the '40s, she's worked with some of the greatest actors and directors in movie history: Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Cecil B. De Mille, William Holden, Gene Kelly, Barbara Stanwyck, many, many more. She's carved out a career on the stage and on screens both large and small that's as rare for its span and variety as it is for the uniform regard in which her skill as an actress is held. Peruse the reviews for any movie she's been in and you'll find that nearly all contain nothing but praise for her performance, if not necessarily for the film. (Of her first picture, Return of the Vampire with Bela Lugosi, Variety commented "Nina Foch shows promise as girl saved from the vamp.") She is still making movies today, appearing in this year's Gwyneth Paltrow-Jessica Lange stinker Hush. (The reviews for Foch were, of course, warm.) But over the course of an interview, Foch will admit to a once-searing lack of certainty - about her talent, her beauty, her choices - and to a constant sense of searching, of looking for something real.
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Nina Foch currently teaches "Directing the Actor" at the USC Cinema, where she has taught since the 1960s. She ... works as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many prominent Hollywood directors. She lives in Beverly Hills, California, as she has for forty years, and has one child, a son, Dr. Dirk de Brito.
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